John Calvin Coffey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5367742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Calvin Coffey |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Calvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffey |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEY J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0007-8206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader
This article investigates a forgotten moment in the pre-history of British abolitionism: the publication of an anonymous ‘Relation’ written by a penitent Liverpool slave trader and printed in Anthony Benezet’s A Short Account (1762). The article suggests that the Philadelphia Quaker acquired the Liverpool ‘Relation’ via the London Dissenting publishers of Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760). Identifying close parallels between events described …
Responses to Religious Dissenters and Refugees: Lessons from Early Modern History
Given contemporary social conflict and political struggles with diversity and difference, we would be foolish to think that we have little to learn from the past. Early modern people faced questions regarding treatment of religious dissenters and refugees that are similar to ones facing us today. What obligations do we have to the displaced and the persecuted? How do we respond to religious and ideological others? And just how far does our hospit…
Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon
Reviewed by: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon John Coffey Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?. By Jane Lydon. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. The starting point for this thought-provoking study is a statement made by Captain Arthur Phillip shortly before the First Fleet sailed for New South Wales in 1787. The founding principle of the new settlement, he declared, should be "[t]hat there…
“Pretended Votaries for Freedom”
The revolutionary assault on “political slavery” had an unintended consequence: it drew attention to the enslavement of black Africans by white Protestants. Although this moral contradiction aroused unease as early as the 1650s, it was not until the American Revolution that an antislavery movement began to coalesce. It was at this juncture that white abolitionists and black Protestants latched onto Exodus, Jubilee, and the New Testament language …
I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader
This article investigates a forgotten moment in the pre-history of British abolitionism: the publication of an anonymous ‘Relation’ written by a penitent Liverpool slave trader and printed in Anthony Benezet’s A Short Account (1762). The article suggests that the Philadelphia Quaker acquired the Liverpool ‘Relation’ via the London Dissenting publishers of Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760). Identifying close parallels between events described …
“Pretended Votaries for Freedom”
The revolutionary assault on “political slavery” had an unintended consequence: it drew attention to the enslavement of black Africans by white Protestants. Although this moral contradiction aroused unease as early as the 1650s, it was not until the American Revolution that an antislavery movement began to coalesce. It was at this juncture that white abolitionists and black Protestants latched onto Exodus, Jubilee, and the New Testament language …
Responses to Religious Dissenters and Refugees: Lessons from Early Modern History
Given contemporary social conflict and political struggles with diversity and difference, we would be foolish to think that we have little to learn from the past. Early modern people faced questions regarding treatment of religious dissenters and refugees that are similar to ones facing us today. What obligations do we have to the displaced and the persecuted? How do we respond to religious and ideological others? And just how far does our hospit…
Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon
Reviewed by: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon John Coffey Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?. By Jane Lydon. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. The starting point for this thought-provoking study is a statement made by Captain Arthur Phillip shortly before the First Fleet sailed for New South Wales in 1787. The founding principle of the new settlement, he declared, should be "[t]hat there…
I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader
This article investigates a forgotten moment in the pre-history of British abolitionism: the publication of an anonymous ‘Relation’ written by a penitent Liverpool slave trader and printed in Anthony Benezet’s A Short Account (1762). The article suggests that the Philadelphia Quaker acquired the Liverpool ‘Relation’ via the London Dissenting publishers of Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760). Identifying close parallels between events described …
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works)